The latest set of results from Tesco highlights the critical importance of being price competitive as the grocer seeks to reverse a sales decline and ward off the threat from discount grocery retailers – increasingly eating into the supermarket’s market share.
Tesco today promised to step up its price war against other supermarkets with CEO Philip Clarke saying the £200 million offensive which was launched in February was “just the start of things to come”.
Announcing a 6% fall in profits for the year to 22 February, Clarke stated that Tesco had to be “much closer if not the same” on the price of everyday items as discount retailers Aldi and Lidl.
The latest data from Kantar Worldpanel reveals that Tesco’s share of the UK grocery market has shrunk to its lowest level in almost a decade as shoppers defect to discount retailers to save money, as well as choosing to buy their groceries online.
Price has become a critical weapon in order to attract today’s increasingly value conscious shopper, with rival supermarket Morrisons announcing last month that it would be investing £1 billion in price cuts over the next three years.
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